ms word vs html ?

E Frank Ball frankb at efball.com
Tue Oct 1 11:03:53 PDT 2002


On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:05:36AM -0700, CalHerrmann wrote:
} There are all sorts of academics, IMHO.  For myself, when I get 
} something in an advanced Microsoft format, I just send it back as 
} unreadable.  I recently got one such, but tried it in my Linux 
} machine and it opens fine in KWord! (Including the french accents 
} that weren't visible in a printout that the originator had given me).

I've had very good luck with "antiword".  It is a c program that
converts msword to text and does very good formating, and it's very very
fast.  msword docs just stream out as regular text in mutt, and if I
reply the text version is there as quoted text in the reply.

I have it stashed, with some notes, here:
www.frizzen.net/misc/antiword/

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com



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